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Tango01 Supporting Member of TMP31 May 2013 9:26 p.m. PST

This would be an interesting "what if" for wargame.

"The invasion of the Ruhr in 1923 by French and Belgian soldiers was a major turning point during the interwar years. France and Belgium occupied the Ruhr because Germany set out in the Treaty of Versailles needed to pay war reparations. After the war Europe's economy was in turmoil and France need the money that Germany owed them to pay back America and start rebuilding after the disasters of war. Germany fell behind on payments and France decide to take matters into their own hands

The French believed that they had every right to occupy the Ruhr on January 11th 1923 to extract the reparations themselves. The French prime minister at the time Raymond Poincare, augured that the occupation of the Ruhr was to just simply to get the money that Germany owed. He told the British that letting the Germans defy the terms of the Treaty of Versailles in regards of the war reparations, would create a precedent that would lead Germany to dismantle the rest of the Treaty…"
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NY Irish01 Jun 2013 7:37 p.m. PST

France occupies, but what would be he German response, militarily? A right/ traditionalist Junker coup? A left/nationalist? Rot front bowl shies?

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